Senior Data Engineering Manager - Ingestion and Transformation at Scale

Senior Data Engineering Manager - Ingestion and Transformation at Scale

Ghent, Belgium

At Lighthouse, we’re on a mission to disrupt commercial strategy for the hospitality industry. Our innovative commercial platform takes the complexity out of data, empowering businesses with actionable insights, advanced pricing tools, and cutting‑edge business intelligence to unlock their full revenue potential.

Backed by $370 million in series C funding and driven by an unwavering passion for growth, we’ve welcomed five companies into our journey and have surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2024. Our 850+ teammates span 35 countries and represent 34 nationalities.

At Lighthouse, we’re more than just a workplace – we’re a community. Collaborative, fun, and deeply committed, we work hard together to revolutionize the hospitality sector. Are you ready to join us and shine brighter in the industry’s most exciting rocket‑ship? 🚀

As Senior
Data
Engineering Manager
, you will be leading an engineering team owning a massive‑scale ingestion and transformation engine that acquires and transforms the world’s hospitality data into a high‑fidelity unified semantic layer. You will be responsible for building and maintaining complex data pipelines handling large data streams - to the order of 100 TB per day. This is a high‑impact leadership role where you will see your team's work directly translate into real‑world applications that impact hotels worldwide.

The role requires you to combine strong technical experience with operational and people management excellence.

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and long‑term career growth.
• Be the technical guide the team can lean on for growing their technical careers and for collaborating on their technical work, while at the same time being strong with people, organization, structure, planning and driving delivery.
• (Help) drive the architecture, design, implementation, maintenance, improvements and scaling of the streaming and batch data pipelines that ingest and transform the massive volume of data powering our products.
• You will be at the forefront of our AI evolution, helping to embed intelligence into our platform. You’ll not only build AI features for our customers but also champion an AI‑first development culture within the engineering team.
• Identify, estimate, plan and deliver continuous improvements with the team in data quality, system stability, observability, data pipeline performance, latency, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with product, other engineering teams, support and business teams.

You’ll be leading a skilled team of data engineers who are part of our Integration Engineering business unit and who own the ingestion and complex transformations of one of the functional data domains. This team is responsible for turning massive streams of complex structured and less structured data into data products with actionable insights for the hospitality industry.

• Flexible time off:
  Autonomy to manage your work‑life balance.
• Career development:
  Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
• Impactful work:
  Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options:
  Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Net allowance:
  Support for home office related expenses.
• Comprehensive health insurance:
  Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding:
  Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses:
  Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

• You are an experienced people leader with a passion for coaching and mentoring engineers, driving their technical and professional growth.
• You have experience architecting, designing, implementing, testing, deploying and maintaining complex data architectures.
• You have a proactive, "can‑do" attitude, viewing challenges as opportunities and inspiring a positive, solution‑oriented mindset within your team.
• You excel at seeing the bigger picture, breaking down large architectural projects into clear, manageable tasks, and accurately…